Obviously, many people met such an illness as osteochondrosis. Doctors consider this ailment a popular disease, and blame it, in particular, low mobility inherent in the current lifestyle. The second reason is alcohol and diet. The same factors can cause an exacerbation of a dormant ailment. One of the widespread osteochondrosis of the neck is considered. It also causes the most frequent exacerbations, since it is this location zone - the neck, with its mobile, small vertebrae and the absence of a powerful muscle corset, is subject to pathological influences to the maximum extent.
What is the dangerous osteochondrosis of the neck
The main danger is that the disease has different stages, and is not intensified by the first. Intervertebral discs begin to experience destruction as soon as the disease starts, but at first degeneration is small. So far, only discomfort in the cervical zone, and occasionally arising pain of a aching nature allow you to guess about the onset of osteochondrosis.
Stages of osteochondrosis
According to the spectrum of symptoms, it is not always possible to determine what stage of the disease the patient is. But exacerbation can be recognized unambiguously, since this phenomenon has a special symptoms.
It is not always easy to determine the stage of the disease by the analysis of symptoms, since sometimes the degree of degradation of bone-cheese tissue may not correspond to the symptoms observed in the patient
Important! The first serious "signal" the brain receives when the disease is moving to the second stage. The pain progresses noticeably. A syndrome may occur with the name "falling head" (if you support the head, the pain weakens).
When moving to the third stage of noticeable changes in pain does not occur, but nausea and dizziness are added to the symptom, sensitivity in the hands may also decrease.
The fourth stage without proper treatment can lead to the need for surgical intervention.
Why is the disease aggravated
It should be noted that the exacerbation process does not depend on the stage, it can occur on any of them, on the initial to the last. Excess always precedes the reasons. Their main list looks like this.
- The patient made sharp movements.
- Excessive load was provided on the neck area.
- There was a lifting of weights or their long -term movement.
- The patient is in a state of stress or the situation when nervous.
- The massage made by a specialist. Or the specialist did not know about the presence of osteochondrosis in the patient, since he did not warn him.
- There are sharp fluctuations in weather conditions.
- The patient received hypothermia of the whole body or caught his neck.
- After a bath or sauna, the patient plunged into the hole or just cold water.
- The patient’s age is significant, to which the intervertebral discs were erased and damaged due to age-the-the thesis.
If osteochondrosis is not treated, at whatever stage it is, exacerbations will certainly arise sooner or later. Symptoms of exacerbation of osteochondrosis of the neck must be known and well understood, differentiating from signs of other vertebrates.
Symptoms of exacerbation
The brightness of the severity of symptoms depends on the stage of pathologists and the degree of its progression.
Their list is as follows.
- Pain in the crown of the crown.
- Reducing the skin sensitivity of the parietal zone.
- Pain on one side of the neck.
- Pain in the collarbone and shoulder.
- The severity of the tongue.
- Breathing with breathing, it is not even.
- Soreness of the heart region.
- Pain manifestations in the right hypochondrium.
- Headaches with pressure on the eyes, or one -way headache only in her part.
- A crunch that is distributed in the cervical zone in the back during the inclination, nod of the head or its turn.
- Fog in the eyes, spots or dots, auditory disorders and ringing in the ear.
- Soreness and weakening of the muscles in the hands, up to the brush.
It is difficult not to pay attention to these symptoms, and nevertheless there are patients who, even in the situation, are in no hurry to visit a doctor, but try to help themselves with home remedies.
Advice. With exacerbation, you need to provide first aid as quickly as it is possible, and the doctor should prescribe it. If the patient is at home alone, it is better to call a doctor to the house.
First aid and treatment
So, treatment should be prescribed by a specialist, therefore, if the exacerbation found the patient at home alone, the doctor’s call is quite determined. Before the doctor’s arrival, it is necessary to behave as follows.
- Limit the movement as much as possible.
- Lie in bed and have no physical exertion.
- To take painkillers, the best decision of which in this case will be Analgin and its group.
- Expect the doctor’s arrival.Drug treatment
The doctor will prescribe anabolics and drug removal drugs, which is inevitable for exacerbation. Drugs for joints will also be prescribed that will help change destructive processes in disks or at least reduce the speed indicators of their manifestations. They will have to take them for a long time, at least six months. But they will help prevent subsequent exacerbations of the disease.
Preparations belonging to the group of muscle relaxants can also be prescribed patients to weaken pathological tension in the muscles. Plus, vascular and diuretic drugs, nootropes and v-vitamins can be prescribed.
By the way. With a severe exacerbation accompanied by severe pain, a procedure called a blockade can be prescribed when a novocaine injection is done directly to the area of the affected vertebra, delivering the medicine by its intended purpose quickly and thus removing the pain.
Non -drug treatment
In addition to pills and injections, a complex of non -drug measures is mandatory. These include:
- physiotherapy physical education;
- physiotherapy;
- massage.
Physical training
Classes, in the form of specially designed gymnastics, are an effective way to facilitate the course of exacerbation of osteochondrosis of the neck and reduce its intensity. It is necessary regularly, in the conditions of a physical education center or home, to perform exercises that will strengthen the muscles. Muscle tissue will help the spine support the segments weakened by defeat, removing the load from them and filling up the lack of their functionality.
Physiotherapy
This type of therapy has a minimum number of contraindications, but it has a wide range of useful influences. The physiotherapeutic kit may include:
- ultrasound;
- laser therapy;
- magnetotherapy;
- electrophoresis.
Magnetotherapy
The latter is carried out with drugs or chemicals that can speed up the process of stopping exacerbation.
Massage
It is necessarily shown, since only a regular massage course will reduce muscle tone, cancel spasm, reduce swelling by organizing the outflow of lymph, and will normalize blood circulation. All this, in turn, will stop the process of disk destruction.
Other methods
In order to reduce the load on the neck, both during the exacerbation and after it, provided that the work is sitting, it is recommended to wear a chanstz collar. This orthopedic device will hold the neck in the normal position, removing the load on the muscles and vertebrae.
It is also important to organize a berth equipped not only with a hard orthopedic mattress, but also by a pillow that prevents the neck of the neck.
Information about the exacerbation
How much an exacerbation can continue, what force will be an attack, how soon an exacerbation can occur again - this and other information is often interested in patients. The phases of exacerbations take place in different ways.
Important! If treatment begins immediately after the start of the attack, and therapy is adequate, the peak of the disease will decline a few days later. If not treated immediately, exacerbation can last for weeks and cause serious consequences.
With untimely treatment of heightened cervical osteochondrosis, the attack can subside slightly, but it does not stop, which means that it will not be single. A series of exacerbations will follow, the gaps between which will be reduced, and pain in the process of attack will intensify.
So that the exacerbation does not return
If at least once in his life the patient experiences an exacerbation of cervical osteochondrosis, he will surely want the attacks no longer repeated. This can be done if you do serious prevention of exacerbations.
By the way. With exacerbation, intensive treatment is carried out, which, in addition to the drug, carries a whole complex of other procedures. But as soon as therapy ends, the patient relaxes, believing that the danger has passed. This is not so, because without supporting measures, an exacerbation can occur again in the near future.
What can be done so that relapse becomes a rarity.
- Find an experienced massage therapist and take a course of a fixing effect of the treatment of massage.
- Turn to a manual therapist.
- Observe the dietary regime, abandoning the products harmful in this situation and introducing an increased dose of magnesium and potassium into the diet.
- Start regularly engaged in physical activity and swimming.
In everyday life, it is recommended to comply with general preventive recommendations. Welcome with long sitting, perform hiking, not to overeat and not allow obesity. It is also very important to treat the disease immediately at its first signs, without waiting for exacerbation. Osteochondrosis is Kovaren, it can hide for a while, and then return to the most unexpected moment, provoking severe pains that will become an obstacle to a full -fledged existence.